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A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Det_no posted:

*in a gringo voice* Evo should have picked a successor...






... that is white.

They believe in their hearts that would have calmed everybody down

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MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





RIP Syndrome posted:

wobwaffle post the videos
Come back around 8:00AM EST tomorrow morning.

Azran
Sep 3, 2012

And what should one do to be remembered?

SexyBlindfold posted:

Here's the full interview if anyone's interested. Spoiler alert: It's bad, folks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0x5b8nOcc

lmao @ "I'm a common person, I can't be racist"

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Come back around 8:00AM EST tomorrow morning.

Early shift, I see.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

Come back around 8:00AM EST tomorrow morning.

...you realize that would just be 9AM in Bolivia, right. Like I get you're making the "lol cia" joke, but uh

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

ZearothK posted:

https://twitter.com/jmkarg/status/1196117945933606912

#nohaygolpe

(soy gringo: police has received orders to arrest MAS legislators)

Where is that's guy that was saying "I'm siding with free elections "

edit: democracy: https://twitter.com/TeresaBo/status/1195485067918954497

Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Nov 18, 2019

Mischievous Mink
May 29, 2012

RIP Syndrome posted:

wobwaffle post the videos

She's having a hard time finding any without swastikas in the crowd.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
Macri knew

https://twitter.com/RancidSassy/status/1196221830689968129?s=20

hoiyes
May 17, 2007
Argentina refused asylum? Just more evidence that Camacho isn't a Nazi imo.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196270080054693889?s=20

anyone else feeling like they are being a bit blatant about this

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196270080054693889?s=20

anyone else feeling like they are being a bit blatant about this


http://laestrellaroja.net/actualidad/bolivia-general-golpista-huyo-hacia-estados-unidos-con-el-pago-de-1-millon-de-dolares/

This is the source the tweeter cites.

I am not sure who this army guy is or if we should believe this source but there you go.

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011

hoiyes posted:

Argentina refused asylum? Just more evidence that Camacho isn't a Nazi imo.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196270080054693889?s=20

anyone else feeling like they are being a bit blatant about this

As far as I can tell, Kaliman was never the coup head or intimately associated with the coup. He told Morales he no longer had the military's support, and then also refused to help the police and Camacho's paramilitary goons with their post-coup repression, causing Anez to threaten him with prosecution live on air and then appoint a new military high command (who were much more willing to gun down civilians). It's genuinely unclear to what extent his retirement was expedited by a fascist death-squad knocking on his door.

The internal dynamics of this coup make a lot more sense when you remember it wasn't a military coup, but a paramilitary coup that the military refused to stop. It's the fascist street gangs who are in charge and setting policy.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Darth Walrus posted:

As far as I can tell, Kaliman was never the coup head or intimately associated with the coup. He told Morales he no longer had the military's support, and then also refused to help the police and Camacho's paramilitary goons with their post-coup repression, causing Anez to threaten him with prosecution live on air and then appoint a new military high command (who were much more willing to gun down civilians). It's genuinely unclear to what extent his retirement was expedited by a fascist death-squad knocking on his door.

The internal dynamics of this coup make a lot more sense when you remember it wasn't a military coup, but a paramilitary coup that the military refused to stop. It's the fascist street gangs who are in charge and setting policy.

According to one of the further tweets:

https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196272922278744064

So if you believe this source then it's not like Kaliman was the only military and police official being bought off. If true, it would also help explain why the military leaders were all happy to get fired like two days after ousting Morales.

Spice World War II
Jul 12, 2004
The NYT published the perfect NYT article about the coup, with highlights such as these:

quote:

On Thursday, Ms. Añez issued a presidential decree exempting the military from criminal prosecution when maintaining public order. The following day, police cracked down with lethal force on the protesters in Cochabamba.

The new interior minister, the right-wing Senator Arturo Murillo, began by promising to hunt down Mr. Morales’s top former minister, Juan Ramón Quintana, who has gone into hiding.

“We’re going to go hunting for Juan Ramón Quintana,” said Mr. Murillo, “because he is an animal that feeds on the blood of the people.”

Mr. Morales’s political party is demanding protection from persecution in return for its agreement to participate in new elections. The party, Movement for Socialism, remains the most popular in the country, making its participation crucial to the legitimacy of any new vote.

Some Bolivians fear that rather than expanding democratic rights, Ms. Añez could weaken them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/world/americas/bolivia-anez-morales.html

Peak NYT reached!

But I guess it shows that support for the coup will not falter anytime soon in western democracies, because the article manages to accurately list a whole bunch of the horrible things the interim government did despite their supposed only mandate being to call a new election, and still they manage to firmly sit on their "some Bolivians say Ms. Hitler might be up to something bad" fencepost

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

vyelkin posted:

According to one of the further tweets:

https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196272922278744064

So if you believe this source then it's not like Kaliman was the only military and police official being bought off. If true, it would also help explain why the military leaders were all happy to get fired like two days after ousting Morales.

Although I think its incredibly likely (if not certain) the USA was involved, it would be a pretty amazing leak if only 1 day later we knew the exact amount they were paid and their destination. The website is not exactly the most trustworthy. Hell, their editors aren't even able to do the most basic of fact checking on other articles.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


has there ever been a time in history where a military coup to remove even an actual authoritarian leader, either left or right, led to an expansion of democracy?

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

brugroffil posted:

has there ever been a time in history where a military coup to remove even an actual authoritarian leader, either left or right, led to an expansion of democracy?

portugal

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

vincentpricesboner posted:

Although I think its incredibly likely (if not certain) the USA was involved, it would be a pretty amazing leak if only 1 day later we knew the exact amount they were paid and their destination. The website is not exactly the most trustworthy. Hell, their editors aren't even able to do the most basic of fact checking on other articles.

Yeah I'm pretty reticent about the quality of that source, hence all the qualifying "if" statements.

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

vyelkin posted:

Yeah I'm pretty reticent about the quality of that source, hence all the qualifying "if" statements.

Exactly. At least their bias is obvious but man, they fall for parody twitter accounts and everything.

http://laestrellaroja.net/actualidad/quieren-revertir-logros-historicos-en-bolivia-acusa-robert-de-niro/

They sourced from this

https://twitter.com/RobertDeNiroUS/

Antifa Poltergeist
Jun 3, 2004

"We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you"




Tbf that was done by a group of captains and majors, because the top brass was all in the regimes pocket.
we then allowed all the fascist enablers go on to exile , only for then to return 15 years later and gently caress our economy up.

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Grapplejack posted:

...you realize that would just be 9AM in Bolivia, right. Like I get you're making the "lol cia" joke, but uh
lol wtf is the point of this post

bagual
Oct 29, 2010

inconspicuous
Apparently troops joining MAS protests

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1196396982836846592

maybe immediately replacing the top brass the troops were loyal to with a bunch of idiot yes-men wasn't the right move for the golpistas :thunk:

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


tfw democracy expands

https://twitter.com/evagolinger/status/1196450535160844288

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012

bagual posted:

Apparently troops joining MAS protests

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1196396982836846592

maybe immediately replacing the top brass the troops were loyal to with a bunch of idiot yes-men wasn't the right move for the golpistas :thunk:

I have to wonder about the regional origins of the bulk of armed forces. How many come from the poorer, native-populated regions of the country?

That's a big factor in how willing they may be to push things to the extreme. Training and discipline will make people dissociate from their origins and ethnic/religious group, but that takes a lot of work.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

lol wtf is the point of this post

Get more creative with the cia jokes! "Has to figure out how to scrub location data first" "has to remember the password for their proxy in la Paz" "needs to tastefully crop out black helicopters" the world is your oyster

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.

Grapplejack posted:

Get more creative with the cia jokes! "Has to figure out how to scrub location data first" "has to remember the password for their proxy in la Paz" "needs to tastefully crop out black helicopters" the world is your oyster

I think the post was less about the poster being from the CIA and more so of the poster being a white Westerner posing as a Bolivian while he's dicking around at work.

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





punk rebel ecks posted:

I think the post was less about the poster being from the CIA and more so of the poster being a white Westerner posing as a Bolivian while he's dicking around at work.
no it was a cia reference but, you know, it works that way too and the author is dead as they say, so ymmv

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
What's the 'minister of the presidency' in Bolivia? I know that in several other presidential systems of government, it's basically the prime minister, but it's a quite vague title that could mean a lot or a little. I ask because Anez selected her cabinet a few days back, and Jerjes Justiniano, Canacho's personal lawyer, currently has the job.

Temaukel
Mar 28, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
Walmart: kindly gently caress off. Also you still owe 64 million dollars to the chilean revenue service, the SII.
https://twitter.com/elmostrador/status/1196468899828682752

Azran
Sep 3, 2012

And what should one do to be remembered?
Yeah, Estrella Roja's articles aren't a source you should pay much heed to given their absolute lack of sources and tendency to fall for parody accounts.

Darth Walrus posted:

What's the 'minister of the presidency' in Bolivia? I know that in several other presidential systems of government, it's basically the prime minister, but it's a quite vague title that could mean a lot or a little. I ask because Anez selected her cabinet a few days back, and Jerjes Justiniano, Canacho's personal lawyer, currently has the job.

From Wikipedia: "El Ministerio de la Presidencia de Bolivia es un ministerio encargado de brindar apoyo a la gestión presidencial, la coordinación con los poderes del Estado, establecer la gestión pública con participación de las organizaciones sociales y los pueblos indígenas, y mecanismos de comunicación y difusión transparente de la información gubernamental."

"The Minister of the Presidency of Bolivia is a ministry in charge of providing support to the presidential administration, coordinating the powers of the State and, establishing public management with participation from social organizations and indigenous peoples, and providing transparent mechanisms of communication and dissemination of governmental information"

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

Spice World War II posted:

The NYT published the perfect NYT article about the coup, with highlights such as these:


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/world/americas/bolivia-anez-morales.html

Peak NYT reached!

But I guess it shows that support for the coup will not falter anytime soon in western democracies, because the article manages to accurately list a whole bunch of the horrible things the interim government did despite their supposed only mandate being to call a new election, and still they manage to firmly sit on their "some Bolivians say Ms. Hitler might be up to something bad" fencepost

Jesus Christ that's like wikipedia NPOV bad.

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!
Has anyone in the 'official' golpista government even acknowledged Camacho's existence?

RIP Syndrome
Feb 24, 2016

SexyBlindfold posted:

Has anyone in the 'official' golpista government even acknowledged Camacho's existence?

If I had to guess, I'd say they're trying to not associate him directly with the coup in people's minds so he can be the "clean" candidate in the "free and fair" elections later.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1196574337635147777

vincentpricesboner
Sep 3, 2006

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Bernie still cool and good

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

Cup Runneth Over posted:

https://twitter.com/Miami_Rebelde/status/1196270080054693889?s=20

anyone else feeling like they are being a bit blatant about this

Lol at only a million. Thats like a small house and not enough to live into retirement on in the US.

My dude you could have gotten like 20 million easy.

Raccooon fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Nov 19, 2019

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Raccooon posted:

Lol at only a million. Thats like a small house and not enough to live into retirement on in the US.

My dude you could have gotten like 20 million easy.

this is not a reliable source

upgunned shitpost
Jan 21, 2015

non-gusanos/golpistas are the only reliable source of information, or have you not been paying attention over the last few days?

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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
Eagerly awaiting the usual suspects to turn up and explain why illegally hunting down and arresting fairly and democratically elected legislators is necessary for the restoration of democracy.

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